Re: [PATCH] spi-nor: intel-spi: Fix Kconfig dependency to LPC_ICH

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Mon Oct 23 2017 - 08:19:22 EST


On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 09:38:57PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> > Also, the 'depends on EXPERT' statement looks misplaced,
> > enabling EXPERT should only be there to allow you to turn
> > extra things *off*, not to hide device drivers.
> >
>
> I will leave this to Mika to comment the "EXPERT" usage. If we remove
> this, I think that should be another patch and the documentation of
> this driver should be updated too.

Yeah, I guess we can remove that EXPERT dependency. It was added there
exactly because I did not want ordinary users playing with the device
and inadvertently overwrite their BIOSes (if it is not protected). I
also agree it should be a separate patch. Do you want to do that or
should I?